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A two volume open access set: Volume 1 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781493934454 ; Volume 2 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781493934546 ; or to order both volumes as a printed set http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781493968947
Describes key sediment processes that separate sediments from contaminated soil sites
This volume is useful to the technical practitioner as well as the research scientist and engineer in the field
Seeks to identify key uncertainties and resulting research and development needs for the assessment and management of contaminated sediments
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Keywords
About this book
natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including
agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. Nutrients
and pollutants from coastal communities and dozens of rivers flow into the
Gulf, including material from the Mississippi River watershed, which drains
over one third of continental United States. The Gulf of Mexico has been
continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of yearsfrom natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, and more recently from oil
drilling and production activities located in the water near and far from
shore. Major accidental oil spills in the Gulf are infrequent.
This is a two volume open access set under a CC BY-NC license.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Family Chair of Engineering and was Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering in the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Professor of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the Weiss School of Natural Sciences.
He is now a Scholar in Environmental Science and Technology Policy in the
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. He received
his BS (1955) in Biology and Agricultural Science from New Mexico College
of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, his MS (1958) and PhD (1960) in
Microbial Diseases, Physiology, and Genetics of Plants from Cornell
University, and the MPH (1978) in Environmental Health from the
University of Texas School of Public Health. He is a registered professional
engineer in Texas and a Board-Certified Environmental Engineer by the
American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He was the founding Chair
of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Chair of the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the inaugural
Director of the Energy and Environmental Systems Institute at Rice
University. He also served as Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA)-sponsored National Center for Ground Water Research
and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored Advanced Applied
(Environmental) Technology Development Facility. Dr. Ward was a member
of the USEPA Science Advisory Board and served as Chair of the
Scientific Advisory Board of the DoD Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program (SERDP).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Book Subtitle: Volume 1 and Volume 2
Editors: C. Herb Ward
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
License: CC BY-NC
Edition Number: 1
Topics: Environmental Management, Marine & Freshwater Sciences